Seed-sowing machine



July 17, 1923. 1,461,770

T. c. ELLIS ET AL SEEDSOWING MACHINE} Filed July 6, 1-922 Patented July 17, 1923. a

STTES i ATEN'I, Gretta;

THOMAS CHARLES ELLIS, ALFRED JEFFERY, AND HARRY MADDOGKS, 0]? PETER- IBOROUGH, ENGLAND.

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Application filed July 6,

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that we, THOMAS CHARLES ELLIS, ALFRED JEFFERY, and HARRY MAD- DOCKS, all subjects of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, and all residents of Peterborough, county England, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Seed-Sowing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to seedsowing machines of the kind wherein the seeds, fed from a common hopper, fall intorecesses or pockets in a distributing drum or wheel, and are carried to a delivery mouth located vertically above a coulter, said recesses or pockets being adjustable, as to space area, to suit various classes, and consequently sizes of seeds.

The present invention has for its object the improved construction and arrangement of a seed sower of the above kind as hereinafter described, pointed out in the appended claims, and illustrated by the accompanying sheet of drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view of the improved seed sower.

Figure 2 is a vertical transverse sectional view thereof.

Like letters of reference indicate corre sponding parts in said figures.

In carrying out the invention, and referring to the drawings, the improved seed sower consists of an approximately circular and flat casing a provided on one side, and extending above said casing a, with a hopper b, and at its lower centre position with a delivery mouth 0.

Rotatably mounted. in said casing a in a vertical position is a hollow conical shaped drum or seed wheel (Z provided with a series of diagonally disposed slots 6 in its periphery and in each of said slots 6 takes, in a slidable manner a palette or plate f, said palette or plate 7 and its slot 6 being bounded by the side plates g, 9* of said drum or seed wheel.

The inner end h of each palette or plate 7 is pivotally mounted in a hole i in a cirof Northampton,

1922. Serial No. 573,157.

cular plate 7' rotatable on the road wheel axle 7c of the seed sower, and this circular plate j is, exterior of the casing .a, provided with a pointer m adapted to be traversed by handover a dialn fixedly connected to the inner plate 9* of the drum or seed wheel d,

as said drum or seed wheel cl rotates, the

seeds drop from the hopper b, a spring-controlled guard ;19 being provided to prevent the backward flow of seeds.

By forming the drum or wheel d in conical shape and arranging the blades 7 diagonally or on'a skew thereto, small seeds have a tendency to go to the lower part of the pocket and so mount up and fall back to the hopper feed, thus ensuring the palettes or blades gauging the right quantity of seed and at the same time facilitating the picking up of said seeds.

We claim i 1. A seed sowing device including a case ing comprising side plates, a hollow frustoconical drum having peripheral slots arranged between said plates, and a series of pallets slidably adjustable through said so slots to form adjustable pockets for the re ception of the seed to be sown.

2. A seed sowing device including a casing comprising plates, a hollow frustoconical drum provided with a series of diagonally disposed slots. and a series of pallets having oblique end portions adjustable throughv the slots in the drum to provide pockets for the reception of the seed to be sown. co

3. A seed sowing device including a casing comprising side plates, a hollow frustoconical drum mounted between the side plates and having slots in its periphery, a plate within the drum and circumferentially an adjustable with reference thereto, said plate having sockets, pallets havingtheir inner ends pivotally mounted in the sockets of said circular plate, and means exterior of In testimony whereof we have affixed our the casin and connected to said plate signatures hereto this 17th day of June whereby t e latter may be adjusted to effect 1922.

I the in and out movement of the pallets with I 5 reference to the drum to vary the area of THOMAS CHARLES ELLIS.

t n ketfi i e 'i edhfi e th x il nd ALFRE EFEERY the casing. I HARRY MADDOCKS. 

